Jane Bannerman
New Zealand Presbyterian church leader and philanthropist
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Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
When World War II broke out in 1939, freelance photojournalist Marvin Breckinridge Patterson took the first pictures of a London air-raid shelter.
Anna Maria Hall
Irish writer, editor, and philanthropistq
Henrietta de Grey
Countess de Grey , political hostess and philanthropist
Annie Montague Alexander
Philanthropist, zoologist, paleontologist, and heiress who established the University of California Museum of Paleontology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Kathryn Hach-Darrow
Hach-Darrow’s Hach Chemical ensured that clean water flows from household taps and everywhere that water quality is an issue.
Mary Lasker
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
Maria Alexandrovna
Russian empress
Agnes Franz
Polish-German poet
Saint Aelia Eudocia
Consort of the Emperor Theodosius II of Byzantium, poet, philanthropist.